Please find attached a response from the Food Ethics Council on ‘Towards the development of the programme on sustainable food systems’.
We welcome the opportunity to respond to the consultation, which has lots of positive elements to it. We strongly support work to encourage collaboration and to accelerate progress towards genuinely sustainable (environmentally sustainable, fair, humane and healthy) food systems.
However, we would like to see a more explicit focus on fairness and on sustainable diets. We also believe that the scope should extend beyond market-based and voluntary solutions, as these can only ever be part of the overall solution, given the scale and urgency of the challenges we face.
If you have any follow up questions, please get in touch.
Kind regards
Dan
Daniel Crossley